To be honest, there was not much difference between the finished statues (you can compare them below) - the main differences being the smoothing of shallow curved surfaces like tops of feet and heads.
I printed the first statue at 0.2mm layer height, just to check it worked, and printed the other statue at 0.1mm layers. These are the built in supports, and meant that I was able to print both statues without any other Cura-added supports at all! You'll see that there are a number of 3mm-wide green posts added around the hem of the tunics, and a couple more holding up hands and elbows. £ These are the pre-supported versions of the statues. Both versions (supported and unsupported) are included in the download. So, rather than tweak settings again and again until the statues printed properly, I decided to edit the statues to create a second set of pre-supported statues, which even the most clumsy of FDM printers (me included!) could print without too much difficulty. I obviously didn't have the settings quite right, and eventually some of the finer parts snapped off and got the rest of the print tangled up. Unfortunately I'd never used tree supports before and both statues failed about 2~3cm up. The first time I tried printing these statues I set Cura to use "tree-supports" to support the bottoms of their tunics and hands and elbows. £ Both statues are quite large, standing about 80mm tall from base to top. One of the unique features of the new Temple Outer Gate is the pair of deity statues either side of the gateway.
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